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“Retail” comic gets its own site, full archive

For a while, my hometown’s local newspaper, the Cedar Rapids Gazette, carried a comic strip called “Retail”. I enjoyed the strip’s wry humor, even though I’ve never worked in retail. (I spent a few months as a checker in a grocery store, but that doesn’t compare to what happens in the strip.)

Earlier this year, the Gazette dropped “Retail”, which was very sad. (I only read the Gazette when I went back to visit family, but still, “Retail” was one of the high points of the comics page.) And here in Omaha, the World-Herald has never carried the strip. So I was psyched at the beginning of this year when Norm Feuti, the author, started posting daily “Retail” re-runs from 2006 on his personal site. It’s been in my Google Reader all year.

From what I can tell, “Retail” is still syndicated in newspapers — it hasn’t made the jump to 100% webcomics. And I don’t see any way to buy dead-tree collections of the comics. (Not that I’ve ever bought a paper compilation of a webcomic… thought about it, never done it.) So for now, the strip is in an interesting state. But it’s an interesting state with full archives, so I’m happy.